I’m sure we’ve all been to a museum. They are places where significant relics of the human experience are displayed - art, artifacts, fossils, writings, etc. But how often have you been to a museum where you actually felt like the experiences were being actively presented to you? Often, you stare at a piece of art or a room from a castle in Medieval times or a model of The Great Plains, and your imagination has to create the rest. What if we could make a living museum? A place where life from the past, art, theatre, politics, people, relationships, conversations, stories, all come alive to the viewer? Well, we are going to do just that. We are going to make history come alive!
The time period we will study will be a crazy one: The Spanish Civil War. Through our study of one of Spain’s most famous playwrights, Federico Garcia Lorca, and specifically his play Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre), we will seek to understand how theatre and art come out of a specific time, culture, and in this case, a bloody conflict. We will read the play, both in English and Spanish, create fully designed theatrical scenes with lights and sound and sets and costumes (with the help of professional designers) We will also study Lorca’s relationships to great artists of the time like Dali and Picasso, and how all of their work was influenced by the world around them. We’ll look at Cubism, and at scientists who were exiled to Mexico for their revolutionary work. This will be a full team project: between now and December 18th we will immerse ourselves in this world and try to understand as much as we can about it, so we can represent it as accurately as possible to our patrons on Exhibition night.
The time period we will study will be a crazy one: The Spanish Civil War. Through our study of one of Spain’s most famous playwrights, Federico Garcia Lorca, and specifically his play Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre), we will seek to understand how theatre and art come out of a specific time, culture, and in this case, a bloody conflict. We will read the play, both in English and Spanish, create fully designed theatrical scenes with lights and sound and sets and costumes (with the help of professional designers) We will also study Lorca’s relationships to great artists of the time like Dali and Picasso, and how all of their work was influenced by the world around them. We’ll look at Cubism, and at scientists who were exiled to Mexico for their revolutionary work. This will be a full team project: between now and December 18th we will immerse ourselves in this world and try to understand as much as we can about it, so we can represent it as accurately as possible to our patrons on Exhibition night.